Claroty's research team, Team82, has examined the GE Proficy Historian, finding five exploitable vulnerabilities capable of causing damage to the system.

“When it comes to cybersecurity, not all vulnerabilities are created equal, and many of the ones that garner media attention actually turn out to be insignificant."

Lookout has discovered almost 300 loan apps that exhibit predatory behaviour, such as exfiltrating excessive user data from mobile devices and harassing borrowers for repayment.

Attackers are advancing to keep pace with cloud adoption and response time, according to a new report from Lacework.

The exploitation in remote services has become the primary initial access vector in ransomware attacks over the past year.

In terms of the share of vulnerabilities with publicly available exploits, three countries out of top five are located in Southeast Asia.

"While it’s not a surprise given increased attack opportunities like remote work, it’s still a worrying development and one we cannot ignore."

One constant that remains as organisations approach a sense of normalcy after a disruptive year is that cyber criminals continue to target and exploit people.

“Threat actors are quickly adjusting their tactics and these exploits tend to get industry attention, but the threat posed by older and attacks still persists."

Attackers exploit weak WiFi, remote endpoints, and the cloud, costing 50% of organisations over $1.3 million in breach damages.

"As zero-day attacks and other vulnerabilities among companies like Google and Microsoft come to light, threat actors are quickly adjusting their tactics."

WordPress vulnerabilities more than doubled in 2021, and 77% of them are exploitable.

The widely-used java logging library, log4j, has been actively exploited, according to an update from CERT NZ and Catalyst.

"Our automated security assessment proved that all companies have network services available for connection on their network perimeter, allowing hackers to exploit software vulnerabilities and bruteforce credentials to these services."

Radiflow, the company that provides cybersecurity solutions for industrial automation networks, has launched a business driven industrial risk analytics service known as iRISK.

Microsoft has announced the Speculative Execution Side Channel Bounty Program that is offering up to USD$250,000 to people who reveal novel bugs.

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has issued an official alert to those who use Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA).

An exploit that targeted an Adobe Flash vulnerability looks to be the work of a North Korean group called TEMP.Reaper.

“Ransomware is not a lightning strike – it can happen again and again to the same organisation."

Israeli-based cybersecurity firm Votiro has joined VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner Program as an access level partner.

Several recent versions of NetSarang Server Management software were compromised by the ‘ShadowPad’ exploit.

WatchGuard’s Quarterly Internet Security Report says that 30% of malware attacks are new or zero day exploits - and legacy AVs are missing threats.

Symantec reports back on the latest threat statistics for March - email malware dipped, but web attacks are the biggest since 2016.

Not a single person claimed Google’s Project Zero prizes, even after six months of being open to participants.